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Posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Thu Jan 22 10:50:35 2015, in response to Air Train Proposed To Connect (7) Line With LaGuardia Airport; video, posted by gOlD_12tH on Tue Jan 20 11:59:31 2015. I've been reading this thread about the LaGuardia AirTrain proposal, as well as the one on NYC Transit Forums and Ben Kabak's and Yonah Freemark's articles. I've got to say, I'm not convinced the Governor's proposal to connect to the already-overburdened 7 at Willets Point is the right one. If you're carrying at least one suitcase, you're not going to want to cram yourself and it onto an overcrowded 7 train. At least the A has larger, wider cars, so hauling a big suitcase on that train on your way to Kennedy Airport isn't so bad. But the 7 is a completely different story with its tiny, narrow cars that are standing room-only often from start to finish.To be honest, I like the Jackson Heights routing shown in the map from Yonah Freemark's blog post. At Roosevelt Ave/74th St, you have five subway lines, not just one. It does help that there's an unused station platform in the station mezzanine, where the train can terminate. It will probably cost more because it will need to go underground to get there, but isn't it better to have a choice of five routes to get to Midtown, rather than just one already-overburdened line plus one LIRR branch that runs much less frequently than any of the subway lines in Queens? |
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